Perceval The Story Quotes

Perceval spends twenty years wandering in the woods, looking for the thing he had found, that was given to him, that seemed so easy, that was not. Later, when things were difficult for me with my work and I felt that I had lost or turned away from something I couldn't even identify, it was the Perceval story that gave me hope. There might be a second chance ... in fact, there were more than two chances-many more. I know, after fifty years that the finding/losing, forgetting/remembering, leaving/returning never stops. ~ Jeanette Winterson

Hubert, the great friend of Perceval, has only the steward's steward to bid him farewell," Wido said, clapping young Josson's back with undisguised delight. "The depth of Perceval's true love for Hubert is finally revealed." Josson smiled uneasily. "My lord Hector is busy with ~ Angela Elwell Hunt

Grail Figure: Have you found the secret that I have lost?
Perceval: Yes. You and the land are one. ~ Excalibur

What life is, we know not. What life does, we know well. - LORD PERCEVAL ~ Elizabeth Gilbert

Each of us has a story - a unique, valuable, integral part of the whole story of God. Your story is important. It matters. ~ Cindee Snider Re

Oh, Perceval, a falcon is born to hunt, and so are you. One day you will hunt indeed--but not yet."
"Why? Am I not ready?"
She looked at him sadly and said, "Give me a little longer. ~ Suzannah Rowntree

There's the story, then there's the real story, then there's the story of how the story came to be told. Then there's what you leave out of the story. Which is part of the story too. ~ Margaret Atwood

The story it told was unremarkable: a tale of love found and lost- the oldest story in the world. The only story. ~ Anita Diamant

What story will your life tell? Love your story. Live your story. Lead your story. ~ Richie Norton

If you tell the story you will live the story. If you live the story you have to own the story. If you dont like the story your living, stop telling it. ~ Virginia Johnston-Dodds

The true story of every person in this world is not the story you see, the external story. The true story of each person is the journey of his or her heart. ~ John Eldredge

Every story teaches you how to write that story but not the next story. ~ Eudora Welty

Advocating well with a personal story is not a call to simply Insert Story Here. ~ John Capecci And Timothy Cage

So what's your story?" he asked, sitting down next to me at a safe distance. "I already told you my story. I was diagnosed when - " "No, not your cancer story. Your story. Interests, hobbies, passions, weird fetishes, etcetera." "Um," I said. ~ John Green

Our story begins at home, but it doesn't have to end there. ~ Charles F. Glassman

The Holy Scriptures are story-shaped. Reality is story-shaped. The world is story-shaped. Our lives are story-shaped. 'I had always,' wrote G.K. Chesterton in accounting for his Christian belief, 'felt life first as a story, and if there is a story, there is a story-teller.' We enter this story, following the story-making, storytelling Jesus, and spend the rest of our lives exploring the amazing and exquisite details, the words and sentences that go into the making of the story of our creation, salvation, and life of blessing. It is a story chock full of invisibles and intricate with connections. Imagination is required. ~ Eugene H. Peterson

The greatest story every(any)one can tell is the story of their life. Just don't let the climax of your story be unrealized dreams. ~ Unarine Ramaru

The story of his great-grandfather ... was his own story, too. ~ Kelly Cherry

Because every story is a ghost story, even mine. ~ Samantha Hunt

Tell me a story, a story that will be my story as well as the story of everyone and everything about me, the story that brings us together in a valley community, a story that brings together the human community with every living being in the valley, a story that brings us together under the arc of the great blue sky in the day and the starry heavens at night, a story that will drench us with rain and dry us in the wind, a story told by humans to one another that will also be the story that the wood thrush sings in the thicket, the story that the river recites in its downward journey, the story that Storm King Mountain images forth in the fullness of its grandeur. ~ Thomas Berry

This, O my Best Beloved is a story – a new and wonderful story – a story quite different from the other stories ~ Rudyard Kipling

Every story needs to be worth telling. ~ Vera Nazarian

The story was gradually taking shape. Pilon liked it this way. It ruined a story to have it all come out quickly. The good story lay in half-told things which must be filled in out of the hearer's own experience. ~ John Steinbeck

All of us are part of a big story. It is a story that is much bigger than we know. Do not confuse the life you live with the story. Do not be afraid to leave the story. You may get scared sometimes because you fail to understand that what is scared is not you. It's the story. The story looks for a way to travel. The story is afraid you will let go. ~ Frederick Reiken

A good short-story writer has an instinct for sketching in just enough background to ground the specific story. ~ Lynn Abbey

The story is the story is the story. ~ Heather O'Brien

The story of your past doesn't have to become the story of your life. ~ Luminita D. Saviuc

When you hide another story in a story, that's the story I am telling the children. ~ Maurice Sendak

Writers are given one great story to tell their story. I'm telling my story as a political document. ~ Larry Kramer

I'm not much of a believer in the so-called character story; I think that in the end, the story should always be the boss. ~ Stephen King

Every time you overcome a difficult challenge you will have a story and that story is what changes lives. ~ Farshad Asl

It's a question of wanting to know how the story turns out. And one can only know that about one story, ever. ~ Caleb Crain

For a short-story writer, a story is the combination of what the writer supposed the story would likely be about - plus what actually turned up in the course of writing. ~ Carol Bly

Nobody's story is written only by himself. In our story, we can always find the stories written by others! ~ Mehmet Murat Ildan

When I was a boy, my mother would tell me that one of the best things in life is the knowledge that our story isn't over yet. Our story may have come to a close, but your story is still yet to be told.
Make it a story worthy of you ~ Renee Ahdieh

Directing made me realise what I do as an actor that's extraneous, it focuses your mind on story, story, story. ~ Matt Smith

Gawain laid his hand on his son's shoulder. "Sir Perceval, when the priest reads the lesson, he says that he who would save his life must lose it. Good words for any man, for there are moments when cowardice will bring death more surely than boldness. But the ordinary man knows, when he goes out to meet the wolf in his road, that he may yet come home in peace. Not so the knights of the Round Table. We win through one deadly peril only to face another. If we banish one evil, we must go on to the next and after that, to the next - until death meets us in the path. We yield up our bodies every day, not for glory and fortune but so that those weaker than ourselves may live. Do you understand?"
"I do," said Sir Perceval. "And I say that there is no nobler calling. I am content." But then he thought of the Lady Blanchefleur kissing his brow on a night of fire and blood, and with a sudden ache of grief told himself that even a hundred years of peace would not be enough time to spend with her. ~ Suzannah Rowntree

This isn't a nice story, and this isn't an easy story. But it is a story about fairies, so feel free to think of it as a fairy story. It's not like you'd believe it anyway. ~ Jo Walton

It was like listening to the universe in motion. Planets spinning on their appointed courses, the lives of men intersecting and parting, the unimaginable harmony of the human body itself in hierarchy and order, were all implied in the song, but something greater as well: the genius of the composer, which must surely approach the miraculous. Perceval closed his eyes and was lost in the weaving music. ~ Suzannah Rowntree

Every story has a true name. I wish this story's name could be different, but nothing will change it. This story is The Book of You. ~ Claire Kendal

Somehow, the story of the book enhanced the story within it. ~ Barbara Lieberman

Every love story is a potential grief story. ~ Julian Barnes

The greatest number of those who share [John Thomas] Perceval's concerns are the people who have more or less recovered from psychotic episodes, and remain haunted by a compulsion to find the essential meaning and importance of the extraordinary events through which they have lived, and may live through again. For them, this is not simply a scholastic concern, it is felt as an urgent opportunity for self-discovery. ~ Edward M. Podvoll

There are two conversations going on at the same time: the story and a conversation about how the story is being told. ~ David Byrne

There's always a story. It's all stories, really. The sun coming up every day is a story. Everything's got a story in it. Change the story, change the world. ~ Terry Pratchett

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself. ~ Julio Cortazar

Write about us," Robinson urged. "Tell our story." And I did it; I told our story. You hold it in your hands. ~ James Patterson

Story, because it is relatable, memorable and often unobtrusive, can help us to see through new eyes. ~ Cindee Snider Re

A story just isn't a story without a dragon. ~ H.B. Bolton

For far too long now Christians have told the story of Jesus as if it hooked up not with the story of Israel, but simply with the story of human sin as in Genesis 3, skipping over the story of Israel ~ N. T. Wright

I often learn more about myself from listening to the life story of a friend than I do reflecting on my own story. ~ Donald Miller

So tell me, since it makes no factual difference to you and you can't prove the question either way, which story do you prefer? Which is the better story, the story with animals or the story without animals?' Mr. Okamoto: 'That's an interesting question?' Mr. Chiba: 'The story with animals.' Mr. Okamoto: 'Yes. The story with animals is the better story.' Pi Patel: 'Thank you. And so it goes with God. ~ Yann Martel

Foreign novels are less action-oriented. They have a different pace; they're more reflective. They challenge us to look for the story, find the story within the story. ~ Stephanie Perkins

I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate. ~ David Talbot

Our story, Maryland's story, is the story of better choices and better results. ~ Martin O'Malley

And time inherently creates a story. Things begin and they end. How they end is the story. Or maybe it's what happens between when they begin and end that's the story. ~ Arianna Huffington

The more original a short-story writer, the odder looking the assortment of things he or she puts together for a story. ~ Carol Bly

A story only matters, I suspect, to the extent that the people in the story change. ~ Neil Gaiman

Whether you work in news, sport, politics, whatever, it's exactly the same; a story is a story, is a story. I consider myself first and foremost a journalist. ~ Jill Douglas

Whatever I experienced in the world that I didn't understand I'd invent a story and workout my understanding of something through the story. ~ Lisa Alther

Don't be his story. Don't be anyone else's story. Be your own story. Protect yourself. ~ Aidan Chambers

Every story has a villain. Every story also has a hero. The Great Love Story the Scriptures are telling us about also reveals a Lover who longs for you. The story of your life is also the story of the long and passionate pursuit of your heart by the One who knows you best and loves you most. ~ John Eldredge

I'd say Rob Reiner's 'When Harry Met Sally' is my all-time favorite. It made me realize there's a way of telling a story where the audience is so in love with the characters that they forget you're even telling a story. ~ Tim Story

Once in 1919, when I was traveling at night by train, I wrote a short story. In the town where the train stopped, I took the story to the publisher of the newspaper who published the story. ~ Mikhail Bulgakov

Story-selling is the secret to successful brand selling ~ Bernard Kelvin Clive

That story you're scared to share
that story has the power to change both your life and the lives of others. ~ Jo Ann Fore

I think that 'Heroes' really is about family. I mean, sure, it's this surreal story, and it's about people with powers, but the story behind that story is a story of family. ~ Dana Davis

I feel very strongly that every artist has one central story to tell. The
struggle is to tell and retell that story over and over again, visual form,
and try to challenge that story. But at the core that story remains the same.
It's like the defining story of who you are.
-Gregory Crewdson, "Brief Encounters"

http://www.gregorycrewdsonmovie.com/ ~ Gregory Crewdson

Everyone had a story behind them, a past richer than she had imagined. ~ Tyrean Martinson

She's my sun and I'm her moon connected by an invisible thread, bound but free. ~ Helena Hunting

Can a story be good only if it produces an effect? If the effect is a bad one, but intended, has the story done its job? Is it then a good story? If the story produces an effect other than the intended one, is it then a bad story? Can a story be said to produce an effect at all? Can a story actually do anything at all? ~ Brock Clarke

I start with the story, almost in the old campfire sense, and the story leads to both the characters, which actors should best be cast in this story, and the language. The choice of words, more than anything else, creates the feeling that the story gives off. ~ Donald E. Westlake

I thought I detected a bit of wonder in his voice, that he'd like to become part of a story, any story. ~ Catherine Lacey

Everything's a story - You are a story -I am a story. ~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

A short story must have a single mood and every sentence must build towards it. ~ Edgar Allan Poe

I once made up a story as a wedding present for some friends. It was about a couple who were given a story as a wedding present. It was not a reassuring story. Having made up the story, I decided that they'd probably prefer a toaster, so I got them a toaster, and to this day have not written the story down. ~ Neil Gaiman

He thought about the story his daughter was living and the role she was playing inside that story. He realized he hadn't provided a better role for his daughter. He hadn't mapped out a story for his family. And so his daughter had chosen another story, a story in which she was wanted, even if she was only being used. In the absence of a family story, she'd chosen a story in which there was risk and adventure, rebellion and independence. ~ Donald Miller

Not his-story. My own will be called her-story. ~ Abi Daré

The story is uneven in its progression. ~ Ichtys

What monster sleeps in the deep of your story? You need a monster. Without a monster there is no story. ~ Billy Marshall Stoneking

There's always, there'll always be, more story. That's what story is...It's the never-ending leaf-fall. ~ Ali Smith

The ending of your story all depends on the beginning of ours. ~ Piper Payne

I can change the story. I am the story. ~ Jeanette Winterson

A story-a true story-can heal as much as medicine can. ~ Eben Alexander

I learned that the story has no beginning, and no story has an end. That the story is all muddle, all middle. That the story is never true, but that the lie is indeed a child of silence. By ~ Ursula K. Le Guin

The story of your favorite foods is your culinary memoir, not a nameless collection of recipes. And that story will be part of the bigger story we all tell every time we turn on the gas and put on a pot to boil. It is the story of American food. ~ Edward Lee

The author Karen Blixen once said, 'All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.' But what if a person can't tell a story about his sorrows? What if his story tells him? ~ Stephen Grosz

When you write a story, you're telling yourself the story. When you rewrite, your main job is taking out all the things that are not the story. ~ Stephen King

Every story has another story inside, but you don't usually get to read the inside one. It's deleted or torn up or maybe filed away before the story becomes a book ... ~ Linda Sue Park

The story of the Kelly system is a story of secrets - or if you prefer, a story of entropy. ~ William Poundstone

The story comes, and it is pure story. That's all I set out to write. But I don't believe that we can write any kind of story without including, whether we intend to or not, our response to the world around us. ~ Madeleine L'Engle

For me, a story's a story if people want to hear it; it's very much based on oral storytelling. And for me, a story is a story when people give me the privilege of listening when I'm speaking it out loud. ~ Sandra Cisneros

I was starting to believe I was a character in a greater story, which is why the elements of story made sense in the first place. ~ Donald Miller

With short stories, the story-teller must have a story to tell, not merely some sweet prose to take out for a walk ~ Herbert Gold

My developing sense was that the foundation of a story is an emotional foundation. If a story does not work emotionally, it does not work at all. ~ Yann Martel

It's not easy to tell a story about writers and make that feel like a complete story and an interesting story. ~ Greg Kinnear

My story - the story of the son of Jainulabdeen, who lived for over a hundred years on Mosque Street in Rameswaram island and died there; the story of a lad who sold newspapers to help his brother; the story of a pupil reared by Sivasubramania Iyer and Iyadurai Solomon; the story of a student taught by teachers like Pandalai; the story of an engineer spotted by MGK Menon and groomed by the legendary Prof. Sarabhai; the story of a scientist tested by failures and setbacks; the story of a leader supported by a large team of brilliant and dedicated professionals. This story will end with me, for I have no belongings in the worldly sense. I have acquired nothing, built nothing, possess nothing - no family, sons, daughters. ~ A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

This is a love story. But it is also a detective story. And best of all, it is a true story, told here for the first time. ~ Nancy Carpenter Brown

We always fall in love with a story, not a name or a body but what is inscribed in the man. ~ Susana Fortes

No story ever looks as bad as the story you've just bought; no story ever looks as good as the story the other fellow just bought. ~ Irving Thalberg